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addition to the net salary you will receive a mobility allowance of 600€. An opportunity to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering , typically a 4 year trajectory, in a stimulating and ambitious research environment

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Model-based robust design methodologies for composite pressure vessels

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100 Best universities for Mechanical Engineering in Russia

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Below is a list of best universities in Russia ranked based on their research performance in Mechanical Engineering. A graph of 714K citations received by 136K academic papers made by 158 universities in Russia was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

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1. Moscow State University

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2. Tomsk State University

3. St. Petersburg State University

4. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

5. Ufa State Aviation Technical University

6. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

7. Tomsk Polytechnic University

8. Ural Federal University

9. South Ural State University

10. National Research University Higher School of Economics

11. Moscow Aviation Institute

12. Novosibirsk State University

13. ITMO University

14. N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute

15. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

16. Kazan Federal University

17. National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"

18. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

19. Samara National Research University

20. Moscow State Technological University "Stankin"

21. Novosibirsk State Technical University

22. RUDN University

23. Southern Federal University

24. Saratov State University

25. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University

26. Samara State Technical University

27. Siberian Federal University

28. Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev - KAI

29. Perm State Technical University

30. Omsk State Technical University

31. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

32. Moscow Polytech

33. Saint-Petersburg Mining University

34. Magnitogorsk State Technical University

35. Saratov State Technical University

36. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

37. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

38. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

39. Tula State University

40. Belgorod State Technological University

41. Far Eastern Federal University

42. Novgorod State University

43. belgorod state university.

44. Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

45. Moscow Medical Academy

46. Kazan State Technological University

47. Russian State University of Oil and Gas

48. siberian state aerospace university.

49. Tambov State Technical University

50. Voronezh State University

51. Siberian State Industrial University

52. Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology

53. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University

54. St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

55. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

56. Murmansk State Technical University

57. South-Western State University

58. Ogarev Mordovia State University

59. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics

60. south-russian state university of economics and service.

61. Perm State University

62. Kuzbass State Technical University

63. Russian National Research Medical University

64. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

65. Ulyanovsk State Technical University

66. Ulyanovsk State University

67. Penza State University

68. Kuban State University of Technology

69. Polzunov Altai State Technical University

70. Chelyabinsk State University

71. Yaroslavl State University

72. University of Tyumen

73. National Research University of Electronic Technology

74. Leningrad State University

75. Moscow State Pedagogical University

76. Udmurt State University

77. Irkutsk State University

78. North-Eastern Federal University

79. Bashkir State University

80. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

81. Kuban State University

82. Kuban State Agricultural University

83. St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation

84. Kemerovo State University

85. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

86. Orenburg State University

87. Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh"

88. Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building

89. Chuvash State University

90. ivanovo state power university.

91. Irkutsk National Research Technical University

92. Orel State University

93. State University of Management

94. Tomsk State Pedagogical University

95. Volgograd State University

96. Petrozavodsk State University

97. Tver State University

98. Northern Arctic Federal University

99. Omsk State Transport University

100. Kaliningrad State Technical University

The best cities to study Mechanical Engineering in Russia based on the number of universities and their ranks are Moscow , Tomsk , Saint Petersburg , and Ufa .

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Democratizing design through AI

Lyle Regenwetter Hometown: Champaign, Illinois Advisor: Assistant Professor Faez Ahmed Interests: Food, climbing, skiing, soccer, tennis, cooking

Lyle Regenwetter finds excitement in the prospect of generative AI to "democratize" design and enable inexperienced designers to tackle complex design problems. His research explores new training methods through which generative AI models can be taught to implicitly obey design constraints and synthesize higher-performing designs. Knowing that prospective designers often have an intimate knowledge of the needs of users, but may otherwise lack the technical training to create solutions, Regenwetter also develops human-AI collaborative tools that allow AI models to interact and support designers in popular CAD software and real design problems. 

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Loïcka Baille Hometown: L’Escale, France Advisor: Daniel Zitterbart Interests: Being outdoors — scuba diving, spelunking, or climbing. Sailing on the Charles River, martial arts classes, and playing volleyball

Loïcka Baille’s research focuses on developing remote sensing technologies to study and protect marine life. Her main project revolves around improving onboard whale detection technology to prevent vessel strikes, with a special focus on protecting North Atlantic right whales. Baille is also involved in an ongoing study of Emperor penguins. Her team visits Antarctica annually to tag penguins and gather data to enhance their understanding of penguin population dynamics and draw conclusions regarding the overall health of the ecosystem.

Water, water anywhere

Carlos Díaz-Marín Hometown: San José, Costa Rica Advisor: Professor Gang Chen | Former Advisor: Professor Evelyn Wang Interests: New England hiking, biking, and dancing

Carlos Díaz-Marín designs and synthesizes inexpensive salt-polymer materials that can capture large amounts of humidity from the air. He aims to change the way we generate potable water from the air, even in arid conditions. In addition to water generation, these salt-polymer materials can also be used as thermal batteries, capable of storing and reusing heat. Beyond the scientific applications, Díaz-Marín is excited to continue doing research that can have big social impacts, and that finds and explains new physical phenomena. As a LatinX person, Díaz-Marín is also driven to help increase diversity in STEM.

Scalable fabrication of nano-architected materials

Somayajulu Dhulipala Hometown: Hyderabad, India Advisor: Assistant Professor Carlos Portela Interests: Space exploration, taekwondo, meditation.

Somayajulu Dhulipala works on developing lightweight materials with tunable mechanical properties. He is currently working on methods for the scalable fabrication of nano-architected materials and predicting their mechanical properties. The ability to fine-tune the mechanical properties of specific materials brings versatility and adaptability, making these materials suitable for a wide range of applications across multiple industries. While the research applications are quite diverse, Dhulipala is passionate about making space habitable for humanity, a crucial step toward becoming a spacefaring civilization.

Ingestible health-care devices

Jimmy McRae Hometown: Woburn, Massachusetts Advisor: Associate Professor Giovani Traverso Interests: Anything basketball-related: playing, watching, going to games, organizing hometown tournaments 

Jimmy McRae aims to drastically improve diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities through noninvasive health-care technologies. His research focuses on leveraging materials, mechanics, embedded systems, and microfabrication to develop novel ingestible electronic and mechatronic devices. This ranges from ingestible electroceutical capsules that modulate hunger-regulating hormones to devices capable of continuous ultralong monitoring and remotely triggerable actuations from within the stomach. The principles that guide McRae’s work to develop devices that function in extreme environments can be applied far beyond the gastrointestinal tract, with applications for outer space, the ocean, and more.

Freestyle BMX meets machine learning

Eva Nates Hometown: Narberth, Pennsylvania  Advisor: Professor Peko Hosoi Interests: Rowing, running, biking, hiking, baking

Eva Nates is working with the Australian Cycling Team to create a tool to classify Bicycle Motocross Freestyle (BMX FS) tricks. She uses a singular value decomposition method to conduct a principal component analysis of the time-dependent point-tracking data of an athlete and their bike during a run to classify each trick. The 2024 Olympic team hopes to incorporate this tool in their training workflow, and Nates worked alongside the team at their facilities on the Gold Coast of Australia during MIT’s Independent Activities Period in January.

Augmenting Astronauts with Wearable Limbs 

Erik Ballesteros Hometown: Spring, Texas Advisor: Professor Harry Asada Interests: Cosplay, Star Wars, Lego bricks

Erik Ballesteros’s research seeks to support astronauts who are conducting planetary extravehicular activities through the use of supernumerary robotic limbs (SuperLimbs). His work is tailored toward design and control manifestation to assist astronauts with post-fall recovery, human-leader/robot-follower quadruped locomotion, and coordinated manipulation between the SuperLimbs and the astronaut to perform tasks like excavation and sample handling.

This article appeared in the Spring 2024 edition of the Department of Mechanical Engineering's magazine,  MechE Connects . 

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LSU Mechanical Engineering Instructor Creates ASPIRE Course for Educators

Two-week class will entail drone training.

May 7, 2024 

BATON ROUGE, LA – Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a drone. Drones are literally taking off and LSU Mechanical Engineering Senior Instructor Andrew Becnel wants students to keep up. Becnel, who is a graduate of LSU’s Mechanical Engineering program and has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, understands the importance of drone technology, especially in Louisiana.

This is why he has created the Louisiana ASPIRE—Aerial Systems Pilot Instruction & Resource Endeavor—program, a two-year effort to train high school educators on drone technology so they can teach it to their students through a course or student organization. This is the first Federal Aviation Administration grant LSU has ever received.

Becnel, who flies drones for fun and founded his own aerial imagery LLC, wrote his ASPIRE proposal after participating in Walker High School’s drone pilot training program two years ago. He realized there was an opportunity to expand upon this kind of program by training high schoolers in flying drones and, possibly, interesting them in aerospace engineering.  

“LSU currently has a minor in aerospace engineering, and I plan to offer a course on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations and design,” Becnel said. “ASPIRE is an opportunity to establish LSU as a center of excellence for drone education in the state. Since we’re a flagship university, it makes sense to me that we would be a resource to help educators around the state disseminate this information.”

Using a well-structured, train-the-trainer model developed by Advanced Aerial Education (AAE) in Alaska, ASPIRE will assemble a cohort of 20 high school educators from across Louisiana for an intensive two-week professional development program delivered at Walker High School, July 15-26. The lead instructor from AAE will attend and instruct the class, with participants flying inexpensive drones that are easy to crash.

“We want them to get comfortable crashing multiple times,” Becnel said. “In an hour or two, we’ll talk theory and discuss the lesson, then fly drones for 30 minutes and practice what we were just talking about. The program will be very hands-on and engaging.”

ASPIRE will not only enable the educators to attain FAA Part 107 certification as UAS pilots, it will also provide them with curriculum materials and logistical support to successfully integrate UAS training into their home schools’ curricula or extracurricular activities and better prepare their students for careers in the aviation industry or finding a job flying commercial drones.

“We’re trying to recruit a broad population of teachers,” Becnel said. “Students at schools around Baton Rouge who don’t have extracurricular activities shouldn’t be left out. Having this kind of vocational training early means they could have a job ready for them when they turn 16, which is the age you can attain your UAS pilot’s certificate. There’s a clear need in industry for more pilots.”

Becnel said Amazon is one such company students could eventually work for since it’s exploring delivering packages using drones. Oil and gas companies could also use drone pilots to complete inspections in less time and for lower cost than traditional methods.

“It’s easy for me to imagine a lot of compelling reasons for Louisiana students to care about learning to fly a drone,” Becnel said. “Drone pilots can be used in industrial plants, in agriculture, and in coastal studies.”

LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Adjunct Professor Marcelo Cohen is serving as the co-PI on the project and will use his expertise in flying drones to explain to the cohorts how drones can impact the state. Cohen teaches a class at LSU called Remote Sensing of Coastal Landforms and Vegetation Using Drones and has worked on the Holocene and Anthropocene history of mangrove dynamics on the Brazilian coast and in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions.

“Drones can revolutionize many fields, such as geography, oceanography, geology, agronomy, biology, engineering, and architecture,” Cohen said. “I just used drones to show how hurricanes impact mangroves and coastal morphology. A drone camera can record the near-infrared to assess whether vegetation was impacted by, for example, winter freezes, hurricanes, or pests. With a spatial resolution of 2 cm, drone images allow us to accurately identify mangrove expansion along subtropical coasts due to global warming. Nowadays, drones with Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections are also essential for developing high-accuracy digital elevation models to identify and quantify coastal erosion and determine areas most vulnerable to flooding due to sea-level rise and hurricanes. Therefore, students and society as a whole could benefit from people having access to drones.”

Cohen will join Becnel at the ASPIRE program training, which will ultimately impact hundreds of students and pave a path for them in aerospace or another field.

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• 10 May 2024
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Four New Mexico State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students were recognized as recipients of the Tim Thompson Graduate Scholarship Fund in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Tim Thompson and the 2024-25 scholarship recipients Nicholas Hall, James Flesner, Roman Chavez and Nathan Troutman were honored at a ceremony May 3.

Created in 2023, the Tim Thompson Scholarship supports students pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering through the Master’s Accelerated Program. Preference is given to students who graduated from a New Mexico high school and obtained their undergraduate degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from NMSU.

“The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering thanks Tim Thompson for his generous scholarship awards and his continual support of the MAE Department,” Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Head Jay Frankel said. “Advanced education provides additional in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, permits job versality, and supports professional mobility.”

Hall, a graduate research assistant, said this scholarship will aid his research and education and will grant him more free time to assist with mentoring younger researchers in the department.

“By being my authentic self, I have created real meaningful connections with colleagues, and they have taught me about my potential,” Hall said. “I believe continuing my education will allow me to continue along this journey so eventually I could end up working at a national laboratory as a full-time researcher pushing the boundaries of the field I have come to love.”

Chavez said this scholarship will provide him the freedom to focus on academics and participation in clubs.

“I plan on continuing to work as an intern for the Air Force Research Laboratories, that would ideally transition into a full-time position,” Chavez said. “I would eventually like to be able to work at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a mechanical design engineer.”

Troutman said this scholarship helped bring financial security to his continued education.

“I plan on taking full advantage of research and internship opportunities that come my way,” Troutman said.

Flesner said this scholarship will allow him to focus more on his studies, which includes performing research on an underwater robot.

“I would like to find a job where I can utilize the skills I have learned about design, analysis and fabrication to design and build mechanisms to help improve current processes, while also being environmentally conscious,” Flesner said.

Thompson is a Belen, New Mexico, native and NMSU graduate. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and is a member of NMSU’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Academy. The MAE Academy is a traditional and strong supporter of the department by providing awards, industrial insight, encouragement and suggestions for continuous improvement. Thompson established the scholarship to encourage top talent in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering to complete their graduate work at NMSU.

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Tyler Huebsch is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He completed an internship with the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions team at NASA.

Where did you intern and what was exciting for you about that opportunity?

I interned part-time for NASA during the spring of 2024. I worked on their Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) team which focuses on identifying new solutions to particularly wicked problems. Wicked problems involve complex, interconnected, and contradictory stakeholders that become difficult or impossible to solve when trying to address every requirement. The specific area of research I focused on was powering sustainable airports in 2075.

I was excited to be a part of a speculative research project. Speculative research and design are processes that uncover alternative approaches to solving future problems. This type of research allowed me to think creatively and reimagine my preconceived idea of research while still pulling technical information from my engineering background.

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I mainly worked on the “Powering Sustainable Airports in 2075” project focusing on powering air-side airport infrastructure and the human factors that will drive the infrastructure changes of the future. These opportunities are helping NASA build a hydrogen coalition that will determine a framework for carbon-free, sustainable power generation at airports.

My research analyzed the fuels and energy generation technologies that will be powering aircraft and airports. The energy dependence airports had on the aircraft revealed opportunities like on-site power generation, carbon-free fuel analyses, and a decentralized airport energy system.

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I had to learn how to solve problems from a more creative lens. In school, I solved problems that were very well-defined and laden with technical material. The problems we were solving in my internship were inherently wicked and had undefined future states. This internship forced me to step out of my comfort zone to solve problems. I learned techniques like backcasting, data storytelling, wicked problem-solving, and lateral thinking. Going forward, I will be able to apply these new tools to future problems and projects.

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Don’t be afraid to apply to any job posting that you find interests you! I never could have imagined myself working at NASA simply because I didn’t have a degree in Aerospace. Even after I got the job offer, I felt I wasn’t qualified enough to work there. After a few weeks, I realized that I was selected for a reason and was able to contribute every day to the team. Even if you don’t meet every qualification on a job posting, still be sure to put your resume in the mix. It could lead to an incredible opportunity for you!

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Venanzio Cichella (PhDME 2018) was one of this year’s recipients of the MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Award , which recognizes alumni who have graduated from the department fewer than 10 years ago and who have embodied the department and university’s values in their professional careers. Established in 2015, more than two dozen MechSE alumni have received this award.

Cichella, whose MS and PhD advisor was Professor Naira Hovakimyan , is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa.

“I want to thank the most important person in my academic life, Professor Naira Hovakimyan. When I applied for graduate school here, and my application was accepted, I had a feeling she was going to be my advisor,” he recalled. “She would often tell me, with a voice that would give me comfort and would make me learn and persevere, that mistakes are never something we should be ashamed of and we should never be scared of. This is one of the many many things I learned from Naira.”

Cichella also holds a concurrent position as an Assistant Faculty Research Engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering, a research center specializing in hydrodynamics and maritime research based in Iowa. He is also affiliated with the Department of Applied Mathematical and the Department of Computational Science.

As director of the Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) Lab, Cichella oversees a dynamic team comprising six PhD students, one postdoctoral researcher, and several undergraduate students. His lab operates out of two facilities: the CAS Lab, dedicated to the mechanical design of robots, and the CAS Lab Swarm Hub, serving as a flying arena for testing drone swarm technologies.

His research concentrates on two primary areas of autonomy and soft robotics. In autonomy, his work is geared toward enabling ground, maritime and aerial systems to navigate autonomously and safely in human-inhabited environments. His research is theoretical—focusing on nonlinear systems analysis, numerical optimal control, and multi-agent stability theory—while addressing practical challenges such as search and rescue operations, mine hunting, and the safe integration of UAVs into the airspace. 

His research also delves into the mechanical design of soft robots powered by twisted and coiled artificial muscles, alongside the modeling and control of soft structures. He is currently developing POLPI—a name derived from the Italian word for octopuses—a robot inspired by the agility and versatility of cephalopods, equipped with eight flexible tentacles capable of manipulating objects and navigating underwater environments.

Cichella was honored at the MechSE Spring Awards Banquet April 19.

“This department is a place where special connections are made,” he said. “I am still friends and collaborators with my lab mates, and it’s where I met my wife, who is also an alumna. Thank you for this experience and for everything this department has done.”

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May 10, 2024 - by Kim Delker

Graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will receive more financial support beginning next academic year, thanks to a gift from an alumnus.

Tim Thompson, who received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from UNM in 1990, and his wife, Barbara, recently established the Tim and Barbara Thompson Graduate Scholarship Fund in Mechanical Engineering. The scholarship is aimed at supporting high-achieving graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with the ultimate mission of recruiting and retaining the best and brightest in New Mexico.

Inaugural recipients of up to four first-year graduate students will be selected for the 2024-2025 academic year, with each receiving $10,000.

Thompson, CEO of AvaDent, is a native of Belen, N.M. While attending UNM, he was a group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he managed about 150 engineers and technicians and developed advanced technology programs.

Before attending UNM, he received a bachelor’s degree from New Mexico State University in 1978.

Among Thompson’s honors, he received the Flying Forty award from Technology Ventures Corporation for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; Discover Magazine’s award as a top innovator in aerospace in 1996; and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2004.

Thompson was the keynote speaker at the spring 2022 School of Engineering Convocation ceremony.

He and his wife live in the Santa Fe area with their Havanese pets.

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